Asia Redux (Conceptualising a Region for Our Times)

Book Specification Item Code: AZA199 Author: Prasenjit Duara Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors Language: English Edition: 2013 ISBN: 9789350980217 Pages: 112 Cover: HARDCOVER Other Details 9.8 x 6.15 inches Weight 386 gm Book Description About the Book In the erudite essay that opens this forum, Prasenjit Duara turns to both indigenous thinkers and the premodern past for tools with which to think about Asia in a global age. Contemporary modalities of regional exchange—'weakly bounded, network-oriented, pluralistic, multitemporal'—chime with earlier patterns of cultural circulation without state domination, giving rise to a prophetic vision of "Asia Redux." This attempt to capture the contours of a (re)emergent region was calculated to provoke. And what a debate it kicks off. Wang Hui resolutely reframes imagining Asia as a political project on a world-historical canvas; Tansen Sen greatly complicates the map of intra-Asian commercial exchange in earlie